Thursday, September 14, 2023

From Jenna Orkin US behind more than a third of global oil and gas expansion plans, report finds Study highlights conflict between Washington’s claims of climate leadership and its fossil fuel growth plans FDNY Wants Feds to Add Certain Auto-Immune, Cardiovascular Diseases to 9/11 Compensation List G20 Policy Recommendation for Digital ID NYC pension funds and state of Oregon sue Fox over 2020 election coverage Bill could force companies to notify 9/11 survivors about health programs, but one group is left out (Students) In September of 2021, the Department of Justice published a report finding that Utah’s Davis School District, just north of Salt Lake City, had violated the civil rights of its students of color by “responding in a clearly unreasonable manner to widespread, pervasive race-based harassment . . . by both students and staff.” The D.O.J. cited common use of the N-word in the district’s schools, and frequent incidents of physical and emotional bullying. The Davis School District reached a settlement with the D.O.J. that October. Less than a month later, a ten-year-old student in the district named Isabella Tichenor died by suicide, following what her mother alleges were a string of incidents of racist bullying from fellow-students and teachers. Mathematicians Solve A Key Möbius Strip Problem, After Almost 50 Years of Searching Washington is full of rats. These dogs are happy to help with that. Experts call for global moratorium on efforts to geoengineer climate Techniques such as solar radiation management may have unintended consequences, scientists say Ahmed used to eat a far more nutritious diet of fish and vegetables, but rising salinity in the rivers around his coastal home town of Bhola ended his livelihood in fishing and forced him into the city.

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